July 25, 2023
Lawyers for a trucking company's former fleet manager, who claimed he was fired for taking time off to undergo hip surgery, will get to keep their $112,000 fee award, the Third Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Tuesday, holding that the award was reasonable.
December 13, 2022
A former trucking company executive asked the Third Circuit on Tuesday to preserve a holding that it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by firing him after hip surgery, arguing that the judge properly ruled against the company on one claim in his discriminatory firing lawsuit after a defense verdict disposed of the rest.
November 16, 2022
A Pennsylvania trucking company asked the Third Circuit on Wednesday to overturn a judge's ruling that it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by firing an executive after his hip surgery, arguing that the judge shouldn't have independently found against the company after a jury had rejected the rest of the former executive's claims.